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Drawing with Sticks
Before we begin using a traditional dip pen, I like to have students use an ancient sort of pen. This pen is a stick with the end cut at an angle to make a point. We play around with this for awhile and then we move to a smaller stick and play with that, and then we move to the dip pen. By then we’re used to the way the ink moves on paper and also used to nothing bad happening when we find we can’t quite control our line.
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Drawing from Pictures
These are three minute line drawings from magazine photographs given to students in an envelope. I find them so compelling just as they are. The instructions are to think of line drawing as making a map of the photograph. We start with three minutes to get the big shapes in and then another minute or so to add details. Afterward we write an eight minute story from one of the character’s points of view, describing what is going on in the scene, first person present tense. These were drawn in 2023.
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Drawing with Sticks
Learning to use a dip pen by first starting with long sticks dipped in ink.
